New Delhi: Delhi will have to pay a huge price for “unhealthy and unhygienic” living as 90 per cent of the buildings here are illegal, the Delhi high court has been told.
The “magnitude of the illegal construction is huge,” a three-member expert panel, set up by the high court to look into illegal constructions, has told a high court bench.
Holding the government and the civic bodies responsible for the “current mess”, the committee has said that “the city will pay a huge price in unhealthy and unhygienic living for the generations to come”.
The panel, however, said that “redemption was still possible”.
In an over 200-page report, it has said that out of an estimated 4-4.5 million structures in Delhi, “it can safely be said that at least 90 per cent carry one kind of violation of the extant building bylaws or another”.
“The violations range from construction without sanctioned plans to construction on open lands marked in layout/location plan as belonging to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) or the Delhi government,” the panel has said.
